scholarly journals Young people and COVID-19: emerging mental health concerns

2021 ◽  
pp. 014107682110189
Author(s):  
Faraz Mughal
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Mental Health Concerns

scholarly journals Differential Experiences of Mental Health among Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth in Colorado

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Brittanie Atteberry-Ash ◽  
Shanna K. Kattari ◽  
Vern Harner ◽  
Dana M. Prince ◽  
Anthony P. Verdino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Sexual Orientations ◽  
Youth Population ◽  
Mental Health Concerns ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Individual

Young people experience a variety of mental health concerns, including depression, non-suicidal self-injury, and suicidal ideation. These issues are at even higher rates among transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) young people, due to the additional burden of having to navigate a world in which transphobia impacts them at the individual, organizational, and policy levels. However, much of the extant research focuses only on comparing TGD youth to cisgender counterparts. This study explores the nuance within the TDG youth population regarding mental health, examining how gender, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation change the likelihood of experiencing each of these mental health concerns. Among a sample of over 400 young people, findings indicate that those TGD young people who do not identify themselves within the masculine/feminine binary and those with marginalized sexual orientations were two to three times more likely to experience adverse mental health outcomes, as compared to their peers who are questioning their gender, and who are heterosexual. The implications for mental health professionals and others who work with young people are to recognize that mental health is not a one-size-fits all model for young TGD people, and that the intersection of multiple marginalized identities, must be addressed in order to improve the mental health of this group of young people. Findings can also be used to better understand issues of stigma, discrimination, and victimization in education, health care, and beyond.

scholarly journals Help-Seeking from a National Youth Helpline in Australia: An Analysis of Kids Helpline Contacts

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 6024
Author(s):  
David Watling ◽  
Samantha Batchelor ◽  
Brian Collyer ◽  
Sharna Mathieu ◽  
Victoria Ross ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Emotional Wellbeing ◽  
Service Usage ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Mental Health Concerns ◽  
Over Time

Counselling helplines or hotlines are key support services for young people with mental health concerns or in suicide and self-harm crises. We aimed to describe young peoples’ use of a national youth helpline (Kids Helpline, Australia, KHL) to understand how usage changed over time. A descriptive analysis was conducted on 1,415,228 answered contacts between 2012–2018. We described the trend of service usage over the observed period, the types of youth who used the service, and the problems young people contacted the service about. Phone (APC = −9.1, KHL: −10.4 to −7.8, p < 0.001) and email (APC = −13.7, 95%CI: −17.1 to −10.2, p < 0.001) contacts decreased over time whereas webchat contacts increased (APC = 16.7, 95%CI: 11.7 to 22.0, p < 0.001). With this increase in webchat contacts, there was an associated increase in total webchat contact duration. Concerns raised in contacts to the service were primarily related to emotional wellbeing and mental health concerns (53.2% phone, 57.3% webchat, 58.2% email) followed by social relationship issues (20.4% phone, 20.3% webchat, 16.8% email) and family relationships (19.4% phone, 17.2% webchat, 21.8% email). The increased preference for online text-based information and counselling services can help inform development of services for young people and allocation of staff/service training and resources.

Youth Suicide Bereavement and the Continuum of Risk

Crisis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 483-489
Author(s):  
Warren John Bartik ◽  
Myfanwy Maple ◽  
Kathy McKay
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
Youth Suicide ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Purposeful Sampling ◽  
Suicide Bereavement ◽  
Mental Health Concerns ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rural Australia

Abstract. Background: There is limited research investigating the risks for young friends exposed to the suicide of peers. Aims: This study aimed to better understand the impact of suicide bereavement on rural young people. Method: Participants in this a mixed-method study were 18 young people who had been exposed to a friend's suicide and who resided in rural Australia. Quantitative data were analyzed with SPSS and qualitative data were analyzed thematically. Results: Participants reported high levels of depression, anxiety, and alcohol use. Key themes were communication about the death, responses to the death, and coping with the death. Young people identified as close friends with the person who died were at less risk of their own suicidal behavior, but demonstrated increased mental health concerns. More peripheral friends were identified at greater risk of suicide. Limitations: The limitations of the study were the purposeful sampling open to selection bias, lack of randomization, and results from one point in time. Conclusion: These findings support that guidelines and interventions following a youth suicide need to better target both the peripheral friends, owing to their greater suicide risk, and the closer friends, owing to other mental health concerns.

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